Word: legalists
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...toughest of "tough cops" in the U. S., according to connoisseurs, is Motorcycle Patrolman John Patrick Connors, whose bailiwick is small, attractive Manchester, Mass. Residents of Cape Ann, among whom the name of Connors is a byword, accuse him of being not only a superfine and arbitrary legalist but a misanthrope who hates automobile drivers. Incorruptible, Policeman Connors has been threatened on at least one occasion by an irate driver with a shotgun, and was once about to be assaulted by a burly victim in the lobby of a motion picture theatre when bystanders intervened. Truck drivers passing through Manchester...
...Justice- In the pinko New Republic last week Dean Leon Green of Northwestern University Law School stepped forward as the first impartial and distinguished legalist to champion the Sit-Down's legality...
...Supreme Court has been willing to expand the meaning of "interstate commerce" when a law involves "morals,"* but has narrowly circumscribed Congress' power where business and industry were concerned. With many an obscure legal phrase and many a learned footnote, Lawyer Cowan pokes fun at legalists as only another legalist can. He sets forth how, in an "exhaustive and painstaking opinion," a learned jurist whom he calls Alyce has settled once & for all the subject matter of "interstate commerce...